The Owner Built Home: A How-to-do-it Book (1972)
“It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
On FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971).
1970s
“Tell Hill he must come up … Strike the tent.”
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War
Reported as his last words. There are suggestions that Lee's biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman embellished Lee's final moments; as Lee suffered a stroke on September 28, 1870. Dying two weeks later, on October 12, 1870, shortly after 9 a.m. from the effects of pneumonia. Lee's stroke had resulted in aphasia, rendering him unable to speak. When interviewed the four attending physicians and family stated "he had not spoken since 28 September..."
Misattributed
“Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.”
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–1872) Italian patriot, politician and philosopher
“Oh, for the simple life,
For tents and starry skies!”
Israel Zangwill (1864–1926) British writer
Aspiration.
“Aww, did I just become the most popular person in this tent?”
Kresley Cole book Dead of Winter
Source: Dead of Winter
Pío Pico (1801–1894) Governor of Alta California
William David Estrada, Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and contested space (2008)
Columbian Exposition
“We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks — that's show business.”
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist
As quoted by Bill Moyers CBS TV (10 September 1986)
